Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total we may say that alcohol does small real harm to college men. It wastes time, both in the imbibing and the recounting. It wastes money, but a college man would do that anyway. On the other hand, it puts the climax to a full evening, and affords the means of a certain amount of boon cordiality. The harm which the drinking of the college man does is not personal, but by example. There is a proportion of our citizens by no means small who, while vociferously disparaging the college man, yet copy after a fashion his method of dressing...
...merely as interested spectators attending a great pageant, Harvard undergraduates have continually heard the call to arms grow more and more distinct. Thus their change of attitude has not been sudden. The future promises grave problems and many hardships for the young men of the country. There is more harm than good in anticipating unseen dangers, but it is all-important to fortify ourselves with a serious spirit of undaunted courage...
...greater need of being well prepared than the patrol boat squadrons. Many who have found it impossible to join a military organization might find that the work required at the Navy Yard could be fitted in to their schedules for this year. At least it would do no harm for these men to hear what Lieutenant Bernard says tonight at the Union...
...carrying the burden of a diagnosis of athletic or strained heart. Thus far, in the absence of a previously damaged heart due to some inflammatory condition of the valves, I have been unable to confirm the diagnosis of an abnormal heart. My feeling is that much harm is being done by the popular impression that athletics are a frequent cause of heart disease. I have tried to show that in some aspects at least this diagnosis has been based upon incorrect criteria. I find considerable comfort in the vigorous statements of Sir James MacKenzie, the eminent English authority on heart...
...Harvard Union, to the fact that a room happened to be available that evening, and to the Union's willingness to make an exception and admit all members of the Union, the meeting was held in a small room in the Union; and so, as it happened, no harm was done beyond having to change the announcements and to turn away a few would be hearers. The reason that the Corporation threw the Verein upon the kindness of the Union was that "college halls are not to be used for propaganda...